On Tuesday 16 January 2001 10:41, b5dave wrote:
OK cups is alive and staying alive. I also get the ghostscript rpms t-shirt,
I forgot I had the install cd in the drive and after select printerdrake.
Bam! I was a member of the club.
Anyway it copied in a ppds.dat file, that was larger than the first one, so I
think I had a bad file. Anyway I started cups, checked every five minutes
for the next half hour and it was still there. So I don't think samba was
killing it.
I had a linux client with an old install of 7.2 on it, configured for the
dead hp. I fired up kups on that, and holy heaven I didn't have to change a
thing on it. It was already configured for the new epson. A test page
printed from there just fine.
So now I am down to my issue. cups and samba, can we be friends. I can see
the printer from my win98 client, I can even send a test print. and the file
gets dropped in /var/spool/samba. I even open up notepad typed in some text
and set that. It too is hanging around it /var/spool. So what gives?
Anyone know.
in smb.conf
[global]
printing = cups
printcap name = lpstat
[epson]
path = /var/spool/samba
writable = no
create mode = 0700
lprm command = cancel %p-%j
lpq command = lpstat -o %p
comment = All Printers
guest ok = yes
print command lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s
printable = yes
printcap only has lp: in it.
printer.conf
Info Epson 777
Location earth
DeviceURI paraller/dev/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
cupsd.conf
LogLevel info
Port 631
AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
So Since I can print from the server itself and from a client, I think the
issue is with samba.
Thanks in advance.
> On 16-Jan-2001 Jerry Sternesky wrote:
> > It seems I am having lots of problems with cups. When I installed
> > Mandrake 7.2, it found my epson 777 printer and set it up as a 740.
> > There were no drivers for 777. I got a great test page and since then
> > I haven't been able to do a thing with it.
>
> My LM7.2 install didn't find my old HP Deskjet 520 on lp0 so I tried to
> setup printing post install. I'm on a simple single non-networked box.
>
> > It seems that the cups dameon just stops running.
>
> I was getting the same thing. IIRC, somewhere in the docs it mentioned
> that some minutes after you start the daemon, it checks back with
> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf but I could be way off base here. Nonetheless,
> manually editing cupsd.conf fixed the dying daemon problem for me. None of
> the config tools would worked because the install left me with an unusable
> cupsd.conf file .... entries like ServerName were still remmed out. I
> could start the daemon (# /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start), but, like
> you say, it would die after a few minutes.
>
> > After I start the machine I do a service cups status, I get back it's
> > running and a pid number. After about 5 minutes, the status returns
> > cups is stopped. I restart it and 5 minutes later it's stopped. I am
> > really at a loss here.
>
> Unless Till (he's the resident CUPS guru) has the fix for you, I'd
> suggest you first take a quick look at your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file ...
> along with a 'man cupsd.conf'.
>
> > When I use a client and netscpae to connect to http://"server":631 I get
> > to the cups setup and the printer is there and configured, but I am
> > unable to print a test page because server.domain.com not located, so I
> > know I have a network issue to resolve with addressing
>
> I could well be wrong, but this sounds more and more like a bum
> entry in your cupsd.conf file.
>
> > Since I will be scouring how-to's and faq's if anyone has some good
> > ones besides the ones on mandrakeuser.org to point me to I would
> > appreciate it.
>
> There's a pile of FAQ's here:
> http://www.mandrakeforum.com/mysearch.php3?author=till
>
> plus the various resources at:
> http://www.cups.org
>
> > BTW this machine is current as of 1/15 with all the updates for 7.2.
>
> Pretty well the same thing here, so .....
>
> I should also mention that I'm pretty certain PrinterDrake or Drakprint
> or whatever it's called is broken. Going that route, you'd be asked to
> insert your install CD, and, without warning, the program would proceed to
> wipe out your updated Ghostscript rpms, replace them with the ones from
> the CD, and promptly barf. Myself and at least two others have "been
> there, done that".
>
> Do let us know how you get this worked out because, as you can see, the
> whole mess isn't particularly clear to me either, and there aren't a
> whole lot of people jumping in with concise solutions. Personally, I'm
> ready to revert back to the old lpd/lpr system because the two fonts I
> most often use for printing from Wordperfect come out slightly better the
> old way.
